6 ian 2015

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) is well positioned to further recoup the correction suffered during the crisis and stands the chance to top the 2007 highs in one-two years, in a European context more

6 ian 2015

Modern retail players last year added almost 250 stores, maintaining the pace of 2013 and driving the total number of units to almost 1,500. The champions of expansion were Mega Image and Profi, more

6 ian 2015

2014 brought a new peak of energy exports, with Romania fully benefiting from the regional context and sending energy worth almost EUR250 million abroad. While, by quantity, energy exports topped the more

6 ian 2015

Romanian agri-business integrator Brise Group, controlled by businessman Marius Bucur, bought 31 hectares of farming land in Amzacea, Constanta county, from Sira Agromar company owned by Italians more

6 ian 2015

Raiffeisen Bank in 2014 became the most dynamic brokerage on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, toppling the leader of the previous three years, Swiss Capital. Stock transfers handled by Raiffeisen reached more

30 dec 2014

The Romanian communications industry, worth over EUR3 billion a year, did not lack events in 2014, even though none of the big deals expected on the market has materialized. more

29 dec 2014

Roche Romania, the largest player on the local pharmaceutical market, estimates the industry will register tepid growth, of 2-3%, in 2015. more

29 dec 2014

Over 100 projects (shopping malls, retail parks, retail galleries) have been opened in Romania in the past 15 years, and 2015 will bring another three malls, in Bucharest, Brasov and Timisoara, in the more

29 dec 2014

For two years, 2011 and 2012, wine production was way below the average, therefore production costs went up, wine makers hiked shelf prices and consumers, coping with falling purchasing power, shifted more

29 dec 2014

Romania’s largest travel agencies forecast revenue increases of 4% to 20% for 2015, according to company officials. more

25 dec 2014

Brand has become a solid argument in end-consumers’ buying decision on the building materials market as well, a market that amounts to RON13 billion annually. While clients have started mainly more

24 dec 2014

Car dealers will team up after recent years’ acquisitions to slash costs and adapt to the lower market volumes compared with the over 300,000 cars sold in 2007 and 2008, and this is one of the major more

24 dec 2014

Romanian state-run drug maker Antibiotice Iasi says its exports, weighing 30% in revenue, felt the fallout of declining prices internationally, as well as of the crisis in Russia and Ukraine. The more

24 dec 2014

Romania has 146 km of ski slopes in 20 counties in the wake of some new investments in ski areas operated this year, from 136 km in 2013, according to a ZF survey based on data provided by the more

24 dec 2014

Holzindustrie Schweighofer group of companies, controlled by Austrian businessman Gerald Schweighofer, will end 2014 with total revenue worth 2.3 billion lei (EUR512 million), up 9% from 2013, and more

24 dec 2014

The mainly good news brought by the main macroeconomic indices in the second half of 2014 and the easing political tensions rebuilt analysts’ optimism after several months of plummeting confidence, more

23 dec 2014

Real estate developer Adama, owned by Austria’s Immofinanz group, sold almost 200 apartments this year and readies to start works on a 77-apartment block in Berceni district of southern Bucharest. more

23 dec 2014

US fast-food chain Burger King has already set its plans for its second try on the Romanian market: 30 restaurants for the next four years and investments of several million euros, according to local more

23 dec 2014

Checks and promissory notes worth 807 million lei (EUR180 million) bounced last month, 55% above the level of the same period of last year, according to central bank data. The payments bounced as more

23 dec 2014

Tiriac Imobiliare, the real estate unit of businessman Ion Tiriac, is set to invest EUR30 million in an office building in Buzesti street, near Bucharest’s Victoriei Square. more

23 dec 2014

Eight months after taking over the reins of Vodafone Romania, Ravinder Takkar says the priorities set for the company were the right ones, and that these are the main targets for 2015 as well. One of more

22 dec 2014

Gabriel Comanescu, the Romanian businessman who controls offshore drilling company Grup Servicii Petroliere, mulls floating the company on the London stock exchange, but plans are hindered by the more

22 dec 2014

Around 58% in the price of one liter of gasoline and 54% of the diesel oil price are going to the state under the form of the excise and VAT. At this moment, gasoline prices reached some 5.25 lei, more

19 dec 2014

Romanian private healthcare company Sanador will open a large clinic next year, the first major expansion step it takes after the opening, in 2011, of the Bucharest hospital, while its revenue is more

19 dec 2014

2014 meant fewer investments in transport infrastructure and also fewer inaugurations. Compared with 2013, when over 100 km of highways and a new bridge over the Danube, in Calafat-Vidin, emerged on more